Review of Mission impossible Fallout: Tom Cruise has done it again

Mission impossible series have has taken a unique turn in Hollywood and there is nothing like it. There are other series that have stayed longer in the industry but with time they have retooled and recast in the franchise as time gone. Mission: Impossible, by contrast, has continually upped its game while keeping Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt front and center in the story. Mission impossible is now on its six installment with mission impossible – fallout being lead by a 56 year old action sta. Who would have thought a 56 year old would take the franchise to this level? The film has shockingly improved upon the series in almost every conceivable way. It's not only one of the best installments in the M:I canon, but one of the best action movies of the century so far.

Set two years after the events of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Fallout catches up with Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team on the trail of three nuclear weapons. However, when the IMF loses the warheads during a botched operation (due to Ethan making a moral judgment call) the team is forced to ally with CIA agent August Walker (Henry Cavill) as they go on a journey to track down the elusive John Lark - an anarchist who wants to use the nukes to create a new world order. Along the way, demons from Ethan's past surface as he finds himself face to face with endlessly-enigmatic Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) and the maniacal Solomon Lane (Sean Harris).

Mission: Impossible - Fallout is one of the most confident and capable action movies of the century. The franchise only seems to gain momentum with each passing installment, and the sixth entry in the series leaves us hoping that Ethan Hunt and the agents of the IMF will continue to accept these missions for years to come. See this movie as soon as possible, and on the biggest screen possible.

What Tom Cruise has managed to do with the Mission: Impossible franchise is nothing less than amazing, as Mission: Impossible -Fallout continues the series' impeccable track record of delivering nonstop action defined by the specific artistic fingerprint of the director behind the camera.

In this particular go-around, Chris McQuarrie (the first director to double up in the series) has pretty much perfected his craft as a Mission: Impossible director. The fights are brutal, stunts are kinetic, and the chases are as pulse-pounding as they get. McQuarrie has honed a lot of the traits that showed up in films like Jack Reacher and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation to deliver a movie that, at least from an action perspective, tops anything that you're going to see this summer. Yes, movies like Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool 2 offered up some delightful set pieces with the help of strong special effects, but Mission: Impossible - Falloutis the type of movie that will endure because of the sheer level of practical authenticity apparent in each shot. Even after the Burj Khalifa sequence from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol or the airplane stunt from Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, there are moments in Fallout that are unlike anything we have ever seen.

Tom Cruise's stunt prowess seems aided by the fact that the seasoned actor arguably delivers his best performance as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - Fallout. There's a healthy balance of physical and emotional pain lurking behind Ethan in this movie that wasn't apparent in many of the other films, with Cruise effectively conveying the character's perpetual exhaustion through his daring exploits. Move over, James Bond, because Ethan Hunt is the action world's defining spy these days.

All of this feels bolstered by a strong sense of tone, a beautiful visual style, and a booming score by Lorne Balfe that evolves the legendary Mission: Impossibletheme in almost every way. Some audience members might feel somewhat jarred by the aspect ratio changes that occur throughout the movie as some scenes swap back and forth between the IMAX and standard formats, but other than that, Mission: Impossible - Fallout remains one of the most beautiful-looking blockbusters that we have seen so far this year. You should not miss out on the series of events that come with Tom Cruise.